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[MATTY G]

WOW

there is a massive amount of respect between "dr Garth" and I ever since day 1 and i knew there was a reason, someone who i walked away from the tournament to say hello to in melbourne, not many people id walk away from a tourny this size to talk to. given me sum awsome poker advice and always had good chats. let me know when ya back next or i might be there for the aussie millions.

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[Nevah play JJ]

I just thought of another question to back up what I asked previously.

I made a decision to not play hands unless I am willing to have them 3x raised on me, however, I will limp in with small pockets such as 2-9's and will fold them if that hand is raised.

Would you consider it smart, tight or stupid poker?

[AceLosesKing]

Wow, cheers Garth

We've always said you were the best thing to happen to NPL - shows more than anything right there

[Brett Kay]

I just thought of another question to back up what I asked previously.

I made a decision to not play hands unless I am willing to have them 3x raised on me, however, I will limp in with small pockets such as 2-9's and will fold them if that hand is raised.

Would you consider it smart, tight or stupid poker?

Nevah do a google search for a program called pokerstove.

It is a hand ratings calculator.

So lets say pocket 2's vs top 10% of hands will give you a 40/60 Situation. Which means 40% of the time you will win vs the 60% of time they will win. So correct to fold. Yours to evaluate

As for pocket 9's becomes 47/53. Up to you if you want to give away some value out of the hand. But if there are a few extra blinds in the pot, some times it is correct to call, even if you don't like it.

Folding a 1k pot because you don't want to call $15 on the river.

[Garth Kay]

People often play low pockets rather wrong, they are probably the worst hand to play.

I suggest you continue to play them the way you do. Sometimes it is good to re raise with the range of 77 - TT. The others are worthwhile to limp with or call a raise, but you are 8 to 1 of hitting your set so you need to be offered some fantastic pot odds. If it's heads up re raise the initial raiser, 50% of the time for the next few weeks and see how you go.

Experiment with different forms of playing that certain hand and see what works best for you.

[Nevah play JJ]

Nevah do a google search for a program called pokerstove.
It is a hand ratings calculator.

Downloading it now Brett, thanks heaps for the information.
LOL... now I will need a part on ask Brett for Pokerstove information.. LOL

[Brett Kay]

Just pm me. Will write out a quick little summary, but most of it is straight forward

[BigPete33]

Only just read this topic, magnificent on the fly post Garth.


You almost levelled the score (you know what I mean).

[AceLosesKing]

This question can be answered by Garth, but if anyone else wants to jump in I'd love to hear some feedback.

I'm playing a tourny atm and my stats look like this:



Is that too low a % for flops? I think it is... yet I've got 16,000 at 300/600, just below avg stack. As you can see I've won all showdowns. Thing is, my stats were similar (not as tight) yesterday when I won. Still... I find myself laying down QJ/KJ/A9 etc to raises, and I'm often right, guess I just feel I'm too tight sometimes.

Its working though! Anyway, just after some opinions.

[Des]

Umm you've won 8 / 10 showdowns... so not all.